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July 1, 2009
Call for Abstracts: 11th Portuguese Health Economics Conference
Location: Porto, Portugal
Conference dates: 8 to 10 October, 2009
Abstract submission deadline: 1st July 2009
The Portuguese Health Economics Association will hold the 11th National Health Economics Conference in Porto from 8 to 10 October, 2009.
Since 1997, year in which the Portuguese Health Economics Association was founded, Health Economics in Portugal has increased the attention of academics, health professionals and politicians.
The aim of this conference is to prove a forum for rigorous debate to make known the work of Portuguese and foreign researchers of the most important current themes in health economics.
The 11th Portuguese Health Economics Conference will bring to a wider audience of health providers, managers and decision makers the work of researchers from Portugal and other countries.
Official languages of the conference: English and Portuguese.
Abstract Submission:
All abstract submissions must be made through Abstract Central till 1st July 2009.
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The 11th Portuguese Health Economics Conference is open to all themes in the field of health economics, including:
- Life-style and risk factors in health
- Social inequality and the determinants of health
- Equity in financing and delivery of health care
- Financing and sustainability of health systems
- Payment systems
- Markets and regulation
- Economics of the hospital sector
- Demand for health care and user charges
- Health insurance and the public-private mix
- Cost of illness and budgetary impact
- Economic evaluation of health technologies
- Outcomes measurement and quality of life
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Regulation of pharmaceutical markets
- Applied health econometrics
Conference location:
The conference will be held at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto
If you have any question about the 11th Portuguese Health Economics Conference contact:
APES
Escola Nacional de Saude Publica
Av. Padre Cruz 1600-560, Lisboa, Portugal
Ph: 00 (351) 21 751 2104 / 21 757 3536
Fax:
00 (351) 21 757 3536
Email: apes@ensp.unl.pt
